(first posted 9/26/2011) If you didn’t know, this is what a “Plucked Chicken” looks like. No longer the wild roosters of The Forward Look, the next-to-last Chryslers that Virgil […]
(first posted 12/3/2011) The automotive market is cruel. What is once brilliant, within a year or so can be a has-been. And one of the greatest automobiles this fall […]
(first posted 2/15/2012) For all middle children life is hard. And no life is harder in the automotive world than the middle model or trim level. The most difficult life […]
(first posted 9/23/2014) The Studebaker is the most Christ-like of all personal coupes. I’m not too sure that the end of production at South Bend fell on a Friday, or […]
(first posted 8/13/2014) This particular zone of the Broadway Auto Row in Oakland has long been a lucky spot for me to spot cars on gloomy days. This is the […]
(originally posted 3/6/2014) Finned, fresh and fantastic: The Forward Look Mopar cars shocked and awed both the buying public and the competition in the fall of 1956–but by the fall […]
(first posted 2/12/2013) To continue on the trajectory of early -’60s Oldsmobiles that continues to haunt me, I present this Dynamic 88, which I first met under the cover of […]
(first posted 1/11/2013) Or deadly? One always has to question why Chrysler even bothered with DeSoto after a certain point. Five years after offering this befinned model, DeSoto would cease […]
(first posted 9/27/2012) Some cars never let you escape the gravitational pull they have on your life. It might surprise you that this big, black, buxom beauty and I go […]
(first posted 10/4/2012) Got a growing family on a budget? Are twins on the way, but you don’t want to pulverize the piggy bank? If so, you had a plethora […]
(originally posted 05/06/2014) You are totally forgiven if at first glance you think this is a 1968 Pontiac Grand Prix. Or worse, a 1967 Catalina. Thanks to a certain former […]
(first posted 2/15/2013) My dear Pontiac fans, I hate to offend you. However, your brand had absolutely no identity for the majority of its life on the automotive landscape. […]
(first posted 5/25/2012) One of my favorite cars that shows up to a number of local shows is this very sinister 1964 Deuce and a Quarter. And shortly we’ll get […]